MAHATMA GANDHI.

People with a lot of self-discipline understand that willpower is a last resort.

Willpower should never be a primary strategy for accomplishing difficult things.

Better to avoid temptations in the first place than trying to resist them.

• "Live each day as if it were your last" is a chiche. Plenty say, few actually do it.
• A better analogy would be soldiers who are about to leave on deployment. Not knowing whether they'll return or not, what do they do?
• They get their affairs in order, handle their business, ...

Sometimes flashes of ideas can come out of nowhere, but normally, creating a whole world requires a long and slow intake of relevant material.

A lot of contextual information is required for creative writing, which only comes from reading and observing the world.

Instead o...